Read the following excerpt from the great gatsby, which takes place just before gatsby's funeral:

a little before three the lutheran minister arrived from flushing, and i began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. so did gatsby's father. . the minister glanced several times at his watch, so i took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. but it wasn't any use. nobody came (174).

which of the following sentences most accurately describes a theme shown in this excerpt?

a. religion is important to gatsby.
b. gatsby made many enemies.
c. parental love is unconditional.
d. wealth cannot buy friendship.

I absolutely love this book and the movie! 

the answer is either c or d but I'm 99% positive the answer is

D-wealth cannot but friendship's.

remembering this part of the book I'm pretty sure the answer indeed is D. Hope my answer could help.

D.Wealth cannot buy friendship.

Gatsby's focus on wealth and the ostentatious lead many people to be "friends" with him. Rather they took advantage of his desire to belong to high society and enjoyed his lavish parties. In this scene, the speaker and his father are at Gatsby's funeral waiting for other's to attend. No one arrives. Even though Gatsby seemed to have people around him, no one was actually enough of a friend to attend his funeral. This further shows that wealth cannot buy friendship.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.